Top News
U.S. Senate hopeful Sharron Angle completed her surprise march to the front of the pack with a resounding victory in Tuesday's primary election.
Gov. Jim Gibbons, meanwhile, limped his way to an inauspicious entry in the history books.
Buoyed by the endorsement and funding help of the Tea Party Express, Angle captured 40 percent of the vote to win the GOP nomination over a slumping Sue Lowden and an outmatched Danny Tarkanian.
The staunch conservative now sets her sights on the nation's biggest incumbent target: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Also decided for certain on Tuesday: Nevada will get a new chief executive next year.
With his lopsided defeat at the hands of Brian Sandoval, Gibbons became Nevada's first incumbent governor to lose in the primary.
Monday
Harper goes No. 1
Baseball phenom Bryce Harper was selected No. 1 overall by the Washington Nationals in the major league draft, and he made some history in the process.
The Las Vegas High School student and Sports Illustrated cover boy is the first Las Vegas native to be drafted No. 1 in any major professional sport, and he's the first junior-college player to be the top pick in the baseball draft.
Tuesday
Nye DA bounced
Voters in Nye County dumped embattled District Attorney Bob Beckett in the Republican primary, sending him packing with a fifth-place finish out of five candidates.
The four-term incumbent garnered less than 9 percent of the vote amid a widening legal mess that began with his arrest in early May and now includes special prosecutors, outside judges and criminal charges against one of the officers who booked Beckett.
Wednesday
Jeffs charges dropped
Charges against polygamous church prophet Warren Jeffs were dropped in Arizona.
Jeffs had been awaiting trial for two years on allegations he assigned two 16-year-old girls to adult men in marriages sanctioned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The victims no longer want to press the cases, prosecutors said.
Thursday
New Airport shelved
Development of the proposed Ivanpah airport, considered crucial to Southern Nevada's future just a few years ago, has been suspended indefinitely because of lower passenger numbers and planned improvements at McCarran International Airport.
Halting the process now is expected to save $15 million.
Studies already under way will be finished.
Friday
Desai pleads not guilty
Dr. Dipak Desai pleaded innocent Friday to a 28-count indictment stemming from the 2007 hepatitis C outbreak.
In his first court appearance since health officials disclosed the outbreak in 2008, Desai, 60, stood tall before District Judge Donald Mosley but did not enter the plea himself. His attorney, Richard Wright, spoke for him, telling the judge that a July 2008 stroke has impaired Desai's cognitive abilities.
Mosley set a March 14 trial date.
Week In ReviewMore Information
NUMBERS
30.1 -- The percentage of active registered voters statewide who cast a ballot in the primary election.
2 1/2 -- The number of years it will take No. 1 draft pick Bryce Harper to make it to the major leagues, according to his baseball coach at the College of Southern Nevada.
381 -- The number of votes received by both the incumbent and a challenger in a primary race for the Nye County Commission. A game of high-card may be used to break the tie.
10 -- The number of teams in the Mountain West Conference -- for the moment anyway -- with the addition of Boise State University on Friday.
MULTIMEDIA
VIDEO: Bill Clinton appears for Harry Reid
VIDEO: Nellis airmen killed in Afghanistan
VIDEO: Carol Cling's weekly Movie Minute
VIDEO: Democratic gubernatorial candidate on education
VIDEO: Primary election night winners and losers
VIDEO: Republican U.S. Senate primary -- A race to the finish
VIDEO: Tim Chambers, new UNLV baseball coach
SLIDE SHOW: Medical marjuana march
SLIDE SHOW: Saluting American valor
QUOTES
"We need to say to Harry Reid, you have failed and you are fired."
SHARRON ANGLE
AFter winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate during Tuesday's primary election.
"Wacky."
The label the Nevada State Democratic Party had already slapped on Angle Tuesday night. Party officials also referred to her views as "dangerous."
"Their little claws hurt your head."
NORTH LAS VEGAS MAYOR SHARI BUCK
Talking about the nesting mockingbirds that have taken to harassing visitors to city hall, prompting the city to put up warning signs.
"All seven airmen involved in this incident embody the rescue motto, 'that others may live,' and were serving their country with distinction."
Lt. Col. James McElhenney
deputy commander of the 563rd Rescue Group, based at Nellis AIR FORCE BASE, talking about the rescue helicopter crew shot down in Afghanistan. Four of the men were killed, and the other three were wounded.
"This would at least say to them, 'If we don't find anyone else, at least we have Jim. He's a known commodity.' "
Jim Rogers
The former higher education chancellor on his decision to apply for the position of Clark County School District superintendent.
